Sarah Silverman

Sarah first gained national exposure in 1993 as a writer/featured player on Saturday Night Live. Since that time she's produced and starred in her own show, The Sarah Silverman Program, and starred alongside Seth Rogan and Michelle Williams in Take This Waltz. She dated Jimmy Kimmel, on whose show she preformed her Emmy-awarded song, "I'm F*cking Matt Damon." In the past she's appeared on such shows as Mr. Show with Bob and David and Greg the Bunny, as well as appearances in films like Bulworth, There's Something About Mary, The School of Rock, and her in-concert feature Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic. She has also had roles in Rent, Funny People, and lent her voice to animated feature, Wreck-It Ralph. Recently she became one fifth of the comedy collective "JASH" which also includes Michael Cera, Reggie Watts, and Tim & Eric.

Appeal

Sarah Silverman may be the foxiest female comic we know of, and we're not alone in that regard. She's been described by the New York Times as “babelicious,” as ”rail-thin yet full-bosomed” in Variety, and has made it onto Maxim's Hot 100 list, sandwiched between Norah Jones and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Add that controversial persona to her great looks and Sarah becomes just a little bit dangerous. Plus, if you haven't seen Take This Waltz yet, go now. No seriously go, you'll see Sarah in all her full-frontal glory.

Success

We can't think of too many gigs that would be considered more of a bigger break for a rising young comic than getting a writing deal with Saturday Night Live at the age of 22, just three years after she decided to drop out of school to focus on her comedic career. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately for Sarah, considering how the majority of SNL alumni have fared once they left the show, her association with the program didn't last beyond a single season.

No matter how brief Silverman's affiliation with SNL may have been, it was her launching pad to further television work. It opened the door to appearances in a number of major films, even if her minor roles weren't all that memorable. Besides her fame from her stand-up and acting gigs, she also penned an article for Penthouse magazine, as well as porn reviews for the Jewish magazine Heeb. Her profile increased somewhat thanks to her relationship with comedian/TV host Jimmy Kimmel, with whom she appeared in the hilarious Pamela Anderson roast on Comedy Central in 2005.

Sarah Silverman Biography

Sarah Kate Silverman was born on December 2, 1970, in Manchester, New Hampshire. She made her start on stage at age 12, playing the title role in a community theater production of Annie. A born performer, Silverman began doing stand-up comedy when she was in high school. Following graduation, she spent a year at New York University during which time she concentrated on handing out fliers to promote her comedy club gigs. She dropped out after her freshman year to focus on her stand-up career.

sarah silverman leaves snl

In 1993, after several years of experience on the stand-up circuit to her credit, Silverman was hired as a writer and featured player on Saturday Night Live. She was part of the cast that also included Mike Myers, Chris Farley and Adam Sandler, but she was let go at the end of the ’93-’94 season since none of her sketches ever made it to air. To add insult to injury, she was notified of her dismissal from the show by fax.

Silverman relocated to Los Angeles in 1995 and moved on to another sketch comedy show, Mr. Show with Bob and David, on HBO. She also made guest appearances on sitcoms like The Larry Sanders Show, where she had the recurring role of TV writer Wendy Traston, and Seinfeld, where she played Kramer's girlfriend. She also landed guest roles on dramas like Star Trek: Voyager and JAG.

sarah silverman in bulworth

In 1998, the budding actress made it onto the big screen with small parts in comedies such as Bulworth with Warren Beatty and Halle Berry, Overnight Delivery with Reese Witherspoon, and There's Something About Mary with Cameron Diaz. The following year, she appeared in the made-for-television film Smog, which was written and directed by Jon Favreau, Late Last Night with Emilio Estevez, and the romantic comedy The Bachelor, co-starring Chris O'Donnell and Renee Zellweger.

sarah silverman voices crank yankers

In 2002, Silverman was cast as TV executive Alison Kaiser in the sitcom Greg the Bunny, which also costarred Eugene Levy and Seth Green. That same year, she guest starred in an episode of V.I.P., the action/comedy series starring Pamela Anderson, and lent her voice to the animated series Saddle Rash and Crank Yankers, a zany puppet show in which she voiced a prank caller named Hadassah Guberman.

sarah silverman’s school of rock

Silverman debuted her stand-up/musical revue Jesus is Magic in 2003 to generally favorable reviews. That same year, she guest starred on Frasier, and played the mean, self-obsessed Patty Di Marco in the big-screen comedy The School of Rock, starring Jack Black. The following year, she costarred with Sam Seder and Andy Dick in the mini-series Pilot Season, guest starred in an episode of Monk, and lent her voice to Comedy Central's Drawn Together and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

In 2005, Silverman appeared in the indie romantic comedy I Want Someone to Eat Cheese with and the musical Rent, and found more voice work on the animated series Tom Goes to the Mayor and American Dad!

sarah silverman: jesus is magic

Sarah's one-woman show was filmed and released as a feature film. Entitled Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic, it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and was shown in eight theaters in November 2005.

Despite mixed reviews from the critics, the movie opened in 57 theaters early in 2006 and cracked the $1.3 million mark in ticket sales. Her other credits for 2006 include Sarah Silverman Comedy Central Pilot, which she also wrote, and the feature film School for Scoundrels with Jon Heder and Billy Bob Thornton.

sarah silverman and the sarah silverman program

Sarah Silverman's own program debuted in Feburary 2007. The show proved to be a real ratings success, scoring the highest premiere ratings that a Comedy Central show had in three years, with 1.8 million viewers. The Sarah Silverman Program lasted three seasons before being cancelled. Since then Sarah can most recently be seen in the 2011 rom-com Take This Waltz. She starred alongside Seth Rogan and Michelle Williams in this Canadian comedy. We don't remember much from the plot, but we certainly do remember Sarah baring it all for the camera.

Silverman has been entertaining in comedic movies for many years now and her next role will be as part of Seth MacFarlane's second foray into live-action direction, A Million Ways To Die In The West.